Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

10 Contents
Creating a mirrored-stripe volume ..................................................................246
Creating a striped-mirror volume ...................................................................247
Mirroring across targets, controllers or enclosures .................................................247
Creating a RAID-5 volume .....................................................................................248
Creating tagged volumes ........................................................................................250
Creating a volume using vxmake ............................................................................251
Creating a volume using a vxmake description file ........................................252
Initializing and starting a volume ...........................................................................253
Initializing and starting a volume created using vxmake ...............................254
Accessing a volume ................................................................................................254
Chapter 8 Administering volumes
Displaying volume information ..............................................................................256
Volume states ..................................................................................................257
Volume kernel states .......................................................................................258
Monitoring and controlling tasks ............................................................................259
Specifying task tags ........................................................................................259
Managing tasks with vxtask ............................................................................260
Stopping a volume ..................................................................................................262
Putting a volume in maintenance mode ..........................................................262
Starting a volume ....................................................................................................263
Adding a mirror to a volume ...................................................................................263
Mirroring all volumes .....................................................................................264
Mirroring volumes on a VM disk ...................................................................264
Removing a mirror ..................................................................................................265
Adding logs and maps to volumes ..........................................................................266
Preparing a volume for DRL and instant snapshots ...............................................267
Specifying storage for version 20 DCO plexes ..............................................268
Using a DCO and DCO volume with a RAID-5 volume ...............................269
Determining the DCO version number ...........................................................269
Determining if DRL is enabled on a volume ..................................................270
Determining if DRL logging is active on a volume ........................................270
Disabling and re-enabling DRL ......................................................................270
Removing support for DRL and instant snapshots from a volume .................271
Upgrading existing volumes to use version 20 DCOs ............................................271
Adding traditional DRL logging to a mirrored volume ..........................................273
Removing a traditional DRL log ....................................................................274
Adding a RAID-5 log .............................................................................................275
Adding a RAID-5 log using vxplex ................................................................275
Removing a RAID-5 log .................................................................................276
Resizing a volume ...................................................................................................276
Resizing volumes using vxresize ....................................................................277
Resizing volumes using vxassist .....................................................................278